theory

Why won't this argument just go away? It reflects badly on the person who uses it. It just demonstrates that they are ignorant of science and the scientific use of the word theory. It only gets them brownie points among people who are ignorant of science. Even Answers in Genesis is getting on...

Once upon a time . . . long, long ago, the earth was smaller than it is now and, over the ages, it has continuously gobbled up space dust, comets, asteroids, small planets, alien spacecraft, etc. This has steadily increased the size and mass of the earth and now we all live heavily ever after...

www.loosechange911.com Anyone seen this "documentary"?? Quote from the site:

What the heck is the algorythm at work behind this one?

Ever think anything like that? It's possible. You know how we discover alternative uses to almost everything? Take a root. Roots can be eaten. And they may make good medicine. Almost everything is like that. There are other uses and purposes to things. Well, as you know, I am always trying to...

I don't know how many of you are on the eSkeptic mailing list, but I see that the intelligent design "unproven" sticker brigade are still at it. I'm wondering if they would accept a similar ruling that required all Bibles to have a sticker saying, "The events and entities described in this book...

This is a logic question, not a scientific one hence I put it on this board. I found it interesting, and I'm sorting through it-- looking for some :) "wholesome" :) feedback. The argument is presented by Alvin Plantiga and can be found at length here...

Paranormal resistentialism is proposed as an explanation of teaspoon displacement in a peer-reviewed journal (BMJ). Is this really the kind of thing that should be introduced into medical schools... http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/331/7531/1498 :D

If I held the belief that a God was the creator of everything, I would be delirious with joy that a significant part the scientific community was championing the Big Bang Theory. I would claim that, as far as it goes, the BBT is essentially correct and fully supportive of my beliefs. The only...

From this thread You see, if we merely existed in a hologram, there in effect would be nothing defined outside of it, although it would appear to expand outward, within the parameters of the hologram that is. While for the same reason, there would be nothing defined in its center, simply...

Evolution is an atheist theory : for all your debunking needs. See especially the section Christians argue for evolution, which has many useful links for the fundie in your life.

Review of the book, Hiding in the Mirror by Lawrence Krauss. When I asked physicists like Nobel Prize-winner Frank Wilczek and string theory superstar Edward Witten for ideas about how to prove string theory, they typically began with scenarios like, "Let's say we had a particle accelerator...

I have been talking to a few friends who are consulting homeopaths and are taking homeopathic "medicine" I found that none of them had any idea of the so called theory- no like cures like, no succussion, NOTHING As far as they could see, it was just like any doctor's clinic. They got asked...

I wanted to totally beat Ceptimus' highscore in Tetris at the Freethought Forum, and I found the scoring formula of Tetris on Wikipedia: I'm a pretty good Tetris player, my technique has always been placing my pieces to get as many lines as possible (I get a lot of single lines), but I think...

I was watching a tv program the other day that had an interesting argument for intelligent design. Here is an approximate summary: 1. If you look far enough into humanity's future, there will be a time where we have near infinite computer processing power, memory storage, programming capacity...

Let me admit that I inferred controversy in the title of this thread to attract as many viewings as possible. I'm not trying to set up some steel-cage death-match kumite between rival groups, just some attention-whoring for my idea. Seeing as how many ID'ers concede ever-so-slightly to the...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3217961/ so my question for the myriad number of people on this board that are better versed in science than myself is: Why is it called string theory anyway?

While watching the classic "Cosmos", Carl Sagan makes the statement "evolution is a fact". Obviously, living creatures can change over time, this is a fact. Don’t drug-resistant bacteria and the silver fox constitute examples of evolution? What I don't understand is the current Intelligent...

It may be down to a stray comma but I don't recollect ID theory a) dismissing most of the fossil record as false b) relying on the Earth being far younger than geological evidence shows. c) requiring the assumption that the deity will be the traditional Christian fundamentalist one...

Big bang and string theoryandhowatomsandmoleculesmighthavebeencreated I think that since strings are at the heart of all reality, then they were what made up the big bang because that was energy. And then the big bang's strings interacted and transformed into other kinds of strings with...

I was wondering if anyone could point me to a source that purports to refute evolutionary theory. It seems such a logical system that I'm hard pressed to wrap my head around debate against it. I mean, even if "god" created everything fifty years ago, wouldn't the theory still apply from here on...

http://www.theonion.com/news/index.php?issue=4133&n=2 Ok, it the Onion, but I was amused...

My boss thinks that the US government knew those planes were coming, and let it happen. And also that there was no plane that crashed into the pentagon, but a missle or some such. I need help. He wants proof that a plane did in fact crash into the pentagon. Photographic evidence of the crash...

Hi. This is part of something I'm writing, which explains why I keep mentioning what "we" have discussed when we haven't. I thought that maybe some of you would like to shoot me down. Comments, please? _____________________________________ Nowadays, when the words "Intelligent Design" are a...

Theory: 1.A set of statements or principles devised to explain a group of facts or phenomena, especially one that has been repeatedly tested or is widely accepted and can be used to make predictions about natural phenomena. 2. The branch of a science or art consisting of its explanatory...

The predictions for GW are that the weather gets more extreme. Nature, from the little that I have learned, avoids excess, and the massive size of some dinosaurs, which have not since been replicated, has puzzled me. My guess, the extreme weather of a warmer world gave massive animals an...

Can anyone knowledgeable about string theory put it in terms understandable by the non-physicist and layman?

There was a book I saw in the bookstore called "Consciousness Explained" Is this book about simply a proposed theory? Or is it actually conclusive proof? -INRM

I wonder, what would happen to religion, in general, and to ID in particular, if evidence of life is to be found on Mars? That will end, forever, the strange idea about the Earth being "a special place" which god selected to create life... Or believers will just say that it is another...

Not immediately after observations that conflict with the theory's predictions. The orbit of Uranus wasn't exactly as predicted, but that wasn't enough to throw away Newton's theories of motion. They had a brilliant track record. They deserved to be defended. And they were vindicated with the...